Composers Flashcards
Nixon in China;
The Death of Klinghoffer
Operas
John Coolidge Adams
The Well Tempered Klavier (A); Brandenburg Concertos; Goldberg Variations;
Art of Fugue
Father of several other composers,
master of fugue form
(A) includes a prelude and fugue in every major and minor key
Johann Sebastian Bach
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (A) Collected Hungarian folk music;
(A) opera
Béla Bartók
Fifth Symphony (A);
Ninth Symphony “Choral” (B); Third Symphony “Eroica” (C); Sixth Symphony “Pastoral;” Moonlight Sonata;
Kreutzer Sonata;
Für Elise
(A) “Fate knocking at the door” theme; (B)
setting of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy;” (C)
originally dedicated to Napoleon
Wolfgang von Beethoven
Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy
(A) includes “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” and “March to the Scaffold”
Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy
(A) includes “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” and “March to the Scaffold”
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy
Carmen (A);
The Pearl Fishers
(A) opera;
Escamillo, “Toreador Song,” the aria “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle,” which is also known as “Habanera”
Georges Bizet
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Death in Venice
Turn of the Screw
Benjamin Britten
Lullaby;
German Requiem;
Academic Festival Overture
Johannes Brahms
Minute Waltz;
Revolutionary Étude
Frédéric Chopin
Rodeo (A);
Appalachian Spring (B);
Fanfare for the Common Man; Lincoln Portrait
(A) ballet;
includes “HoeDown”; (B)
ballet; includes a theme based on the Shuaker hymn “Simple Gifts”
Aaron Copland
“Clare de lune;”
La mer;
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Impressionist
Claude Debussy
Pomp and Circumstance marches;
Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar
HMS Pinafore;
The Pirates of Penzance;
The Mikado
Comic operettas
Gilbert and Sullivan
Peer Gynt (A)
(A) includes “In the Hall of the Mountain King,”
“Morning Mood,”
“Solveig’s Song,” and
“Anitra’s Dance”
Edvard Grieg
London Symphonies;
Farewell Symphony;
Surprise Symphony
“Father of Symphony”
Joseph Haydn
The Planets (A)
Suite including movements “Mars, the Bringer of War,” “Jupiter, the Bringer ofJollity,” and “Venus, the Bringer of Peace”
Gustav Holst
Tale of Tsar Saltan (A); Scheherazade
(A) opera; includes “The Flight of the Bumblebee”
Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
Hungarian Rhapsodies; Transcendental Études; Mephisto Waltzes
Franz Liszt
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (incidental music) (A);
Scottish Symphony; Reformation Symphony
(A) includes a common wedding march
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony of a Thousand; Resurrection Symphony
Gustav Mahler
(A); Music for the Royal Fireworks;
Water Music;
Zadok the Priest
(A) oratorio that includes “Hallelujah Chorus”
George Frideric Handel Messiah
The Magic Flute (A);
Don Giovanni (B);
“Eine Kleine Nachtmusik;” Jupiter Symphony;
Cosi Fan Tutte;
Requiem
(A) opera;
Queen of the Night, who sings the aria “Der Holle Rache,” Sarastro,
Pamina (B) opera; title playboy is dragged to hell by a statue
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pictures at an Exhibition (A); Night on Bald Mountain
Member of the Mighty Handful (Mighty Five) (A)
collection including “The Great Gate of Kiev” and “Promenade”
Modest Mussorgsky
Peter and the Wolf;
Cinderella;
Romeo and Juliet
*Ballets
Sergei Prokofiev
Dido and Aeneas;
The Fairy Queen
Henry Purcell
Madame Butterfly (A);
La bohème (B);
Tosca;
Turandot
Operas (A)
CioCio San,
Lieutenant Pinkerton,
the aria “Un bel di” (B)
Mimi,
Rodolfo,
the aria “Quand me’n vo,” inspired Rent
Giacomo Puccini
Boléro
Maurice Ravel
The Barber of Seville (A); William Tell (Guillaume Tell) (B); The Thieving Magpie
Operas; (A)
the namesake barber is Figaro, who sings the aria “Largo al factotum” (B)
includes the aria “Sous immobile” or “stay still”
Gioachino Rossini
Carnival of the Animals (A); Danse macabre
(A) includes “The Swan” and “Fossils”
Camille Saint Saëns
Trout Quintet;
Unfinished Symphony
Franz Schubert
Finlandia
Jean Sibelius
Also Sprach Zarathustra; Salome;
Rosenkavalier;
Alpine Symphony
*Operas
Richard Strauss
The Blue Danube Waltz (On the Beautiful Blue Danube);
Die Fledermaus
“Waltz King”
Johann Strauss the Younger
The Rite of Spring;
Petrushka;
The Firebird
Ballets
Igor Stravinsky
1812 Overture;
Swan Lake (A);
The Nutcracker (B);
Romeo and Juliet;
Sleeping Beauty;
Eugene Onegin;
Pathetique Symphony
(A) ballet;
Odette, Odile,
Von Rothbart,
Prince Siegfried; (B)
ballet; Rat King (Mouse King), Sugar Plum Fairy,
Clara
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Aïda (A); La traviata;
Rigoletto
Operas (A) Aïda (an Ethiopian princess), Radamès, set in Egypt
Giuseppe Verdi
The Four Seasons (A)
(A) set of four concerti from The Contest Between Harmony and Invention.
Vivaldi is nicknamed “The Red Priest.”
Antonio Vivaldi
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungs, or The Ring Cycle) (A)
(A) four operas:
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods)
Richard Wagner
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis;
Sinfonia Antarctica
Ralph Vaughan Williams
